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A19568	The young-mans warning-peece, or, A sermon preached at the buriall of William Rogers, apothecary with an history of his sinfull life and woefull death, together with A post-script of the use of examples : dedicated to the young-men of the parish, especially his companions / by Robert Abbot ...	Abbot, Robert, 1588?-1662?	1639 (1639)	STC 60.7; ESTC S113008	35,100	122

both of sinne and judgement of those hee dearely loved And if we be versed in his Booke wee may observe that he hath beene pleased to make many uses of such examples Sometimes by them hee doth threaten Remember what the Lord did unto Myriam Did not Acham the sonne of Zerah commit a trespasse in the accursed thing Wherefore doe you harden your hearts as the Aegyptians and Pharaoh If yee doe as they have done yee shall bee punished as they have beene Sometimes by them hee doth reproach unthankefull people Did not I deliver you from the Aegyptians and from the Amorites from the children of Amon and from the Philistims O my people remember what Balack King of Moab consulted and what Balaam the sonne of Beor answered from Shittim to Gilgal Are yee not ashamed to offend such a GOD as I who have neither beene a barren Wildernesse nor a dry Land Sometimes by them he comforteth and strengtheneth the hands of the weak Thine eyes have seene all that the Lord your God hath done unto these two Kings This your trouble is as the waters of Noah to mee as I have said they shall no more goe over the Earth so nor your afflictions shall overwhelme you Will you be dismaied in any trouble or cast off your confidence as if Gods hand were tyed up now more than in those dayes Sometimes by them hee doth maintaine great points of godlinesse Was not Abraham our Father justified by workes Not to glory in before God for Abraham beleeved God and it was counted to him for righteousnesse but to make him stand out against the blasphemies of the world the accusations of Conscience and the upbraidings of a dead faith And will not yee who must bee the children of Abraham or perish walke in the way of so worthy a Father Sometimes by them hee doth disswade from vice Bee not Idolaters as were some of them Let us not commit fornication as some of them did and fell in one day three and twenty thousand Let us not tempt Christ as some of them also tempted and were destroyed of Serpents Neither murmure as some of them murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer if yee goe on in such a way and will not be disswaded yee will meet with the same plagues which they have found or worse Sometimes by them he gives promonition and caution I feare least by any meanes as the Serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty so your mindes should bee corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ Will yee not take heed lest lesse policy make you to fall as Eve fell which was full of bitternesse to her and hers All this use and more hath our good God made of examples not onely because like leaking Vessels we are apt daily to runne out and to forget our fashion which we saw in the Glasse if it be not still represented to us but also because of the singular profit of examples For as they profit a world of people they being like a burning Beacon giving light before men and being like fire whereat we may give light to thousands of Candles so doe they last long and hold out to the worlds end as the poore Widowes mites and Lots Wifes transmutation Neither is it in vaine that GOD hath taken such a course as this It is all for our good that wee may know how to use examples according to their severall natures But among the rest you may reape a threefold benefit by them First an Observation of the customes and usages of the Church and enemies of it This will bee an adjument to wisdome which is ordinarily attaineable by experience of our owne dayes and memory of others Next an Illustration of the faith and manners of others what ever they be For examples doe not make faith and manners but give patternes of Gods rules for the more Expedite practise of them And lastly a declaration of Gods ordinary providence in his acts of wisedome goodnesse mercy justice and the like From these two uses the world doth mostly too farre wander For want of the first the Church is many times filled with Schismes and disorders For want of the second faith and manners are not so cleared and examples are taken up as necessary Lawes which onely shew a lawfulnesse where the rule of Scripture doth not oppose For want of the third God passeth by and wee know it not Let him bee never so wise by the neglect of the example we admire it not Let him be never so good by the neglect of the example we love it not Let him be never so mercifull by the neglect of the example we imbrace it not Let him be never so just by the neglect of the example wee doe not feare and tremble and avoide the rockes of sinne and hence it is that I have beene induced to propound these examples unto you also It may bee that sometimes men doe observe the way of GOD in the whirewind of justice but either they are willing to thinke it not so great as it is or to judge it to reach further than our good God intendeth it If men do think the first it is because they would flatter themselves in like sinnes Loth they are to thinke that God should punish that which they love or that danger should happen to them who have done as they meane to doe still If men judge the second it is because they want charity and judgement in the wayes of God Sometimes GOD gives an example of his justice which begins here and continues for ever and ever as in many of the drowned first world and roasted Sodomites God never made mee so skilfull in his Throne businesse as to define peremptorily that every suckling and infant of those miserable ones were cast into the bottomelesse hell Hee onely sayes that the floud did sweepe them away and they were burned with fire and brimstone and there leaves us to leave the rest to GOD. They were not in the Arke indeed nor was Iob in the visible Church as Isaac and the rest of the Patriarchs were yet might the All-eye looke upon them as he pleased and judge or spare Sometimes God gives an example of his justice which dies here and for ought wee know may end in glory Thus we are said to bee judged that wee might not bee condemned by the world No man will judge Iosiah or Ionathan for their untimely deaths They died in peace though they died in warre in peace with God in warre with men Nor will they resolvedly reprobate the soules of Er and Onan Nadab and Abihu Ananias and Saphira or their likes Their sins were great and grievous yea damnable and therefore GOD brought fearefull judgements upon them and as hee hath said so hath hee done bloudy and deceitfull men shall not live out halfe their dayes But for their soules and how farre his justice